The call for action on year-round E-15 was loud at this year’s Farm Progress Show.
Kenneth Hartman, Jr., president of the National Corn Growers Association and a southern Illinois farmer, says expanding access to higher blends of ethanol is an easy way to drive corn demand.
“We’re in a critical situation with the farm economy right now with these prices where they’re at, so we need a bump.” He says, “We need something to use up some bushels, and you know, for every 1% as far as percentage of ethanol, it basically adds 1/2 a billion bushels of use.”
